Author Archives
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Being There: Bill & Hillary Clinton’s Millennium New Year’s Eve Party
The Madisons went to bed early. The Nixons watched the annual T.V. special hosted by band leader Guy Lombardo. The LBJs had friends blowing plastic horns at their ranch. The Eisenhowers hosted a spiffy champagne party in their Augusta cottage…. Read More ›
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Mae West New Year’s Eve, Partying Like It’s 1899
Many people recall their childhood as idyllic. Forty years after the fact, however, Mae West, got to publicly relive her own Gay Nineties childhood, recreating it on a grandly romanticized scale and sharing it with generations to come. She only… Read More ›
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Y2K! The Last Millennium’s Last New Year’s Eve: A Photo Essay
By the calendar, it was only fifteen years ago. Yet, with all that has radically changed since then, it seems like an entirely different century. And, of course, it was. People were using Blackberries. You could still buy an iPod… Read More ›
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The Southern Belle Mother of Hanukkah & How the Festival Became a Holiday: An Archives Article
She”s been entirely forgotten, but she was a feminist, a slaveholder, a spitfire, a spinster and a brilliant writer of wit, piety and iron will, and without her the United States and even the world would likely not be seeing… Read More ›
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“A Nation without Cranberry Sauce!” The Red Relish Panic of Thanksgiving 1959
It was a red the likes of which truly flipped out Americans for the last Thanksgiving of the decade. Just beneath the giddy Fabulous Fifties decade of I Love Lucy, hula hoops, bigger, better Caddies, Elvis and rock & roll… Read More ›
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Crazy Pilgrim Sex, Colonist & Natives, Straight & Gay, Incest & Orgies: An Archives Article
Discretion advised, forget that old notion of prissy Priscilla. Even the early 17th century Pilgrims of Plymouth Plantation, the ones who gave us Thanksgiving sometimes couldn’t help themselves. As old court records from the Massachusetts Bay Colony of that era… Read More ›
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Mamie, Jackie, Lady Bird & Pat: Thanksgiving & Four First Ladies of the Mid-Century
From Thursday, November 20 until Sunday November 23, 2014, the National First Ladies Library Blog is running a four-part series pegged to the upcoming holiday, “Thanksgiving and Mid-Century Modern First Ladies.” Mamie Eisenhower, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson and Pat… Read More ›
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How A New Dog Brought An Old Dog Home
Doggy Adultery. That’s the only way of describing the odd pangs I first felt exactly a year ago today. Startling excitement. That’s what it felt like to have my fate cross that of Hudson, a rescue Dog who, despite having… Read More ›
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Humans Have Killed off Half the World’s Animals since 1970
This article was written by Christopher Ingraham, and appeared on September 30, 2014 in the Washington Post. Christopher Ingraham is a data journalist focusing primarily on issues of politics, policy and economics. He previously worked at the Brookings Institution and… Read More ›
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